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GA shooter’s father gave him the AR-15 as a Xmas present (a 13 year old) -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 15:51 3
- The timeline the teen’s father, Colin Gray, provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his - Last Of My Kind Sep 5, 16:19
- See, this dude should be going to jail. He should be an accessory to murder. -- nm - pmb Sep 5, 15:58
- It should have been two! And a Glock! There was a chance he could have been a good guy instead of a bad guy. (NM) - NRA Sep 5, 15:53
Linkin Park performing with new singer Emily Strong -- (link) - Remlik Sep 5, 15:11 [youtube] 6
- I watched a few minutes of a few songs. Pretty voice at lower levels but really raspy singing loud. She's cute though! -- nm - Last Of My Kind Sep 5, 16:14
- Mini Global Tour for the new album - JD Sep 5, 16:03
- Oooooooooooooo! -- nm - JD Sep 5, 15:17
- I need to hear her sing Numb before I decide. -- nm - David Sep 5, 15:15 1
  - they're doing it now -- nm - Remlik Sep 5, 15:28
- new album Nov. 15th called From Zero -- nm - Remlik Sep 5, 15:12
real texts between Apalachee HS students and their parents during the shooting -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 15:05
Our Europe Trip Report, Day 2! - Mop🧹 Sep 5, 15:04 1
- Nice report 👍 -- nm - JD Sep 5, 15:57
So how many of the 389 NFL hours will you watch this season? -- (edited) - JD Sep 5, 14:55 14
- Might catch a few Two Minute Warnings™️ -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 16:31
- A Packers game in November when I visit my mom; possibly the Turkey Day games. -- nm - mara Sep 5, 16:07
- Just the six minutes of actual gameplay. -- nm - mafic Sep 5, 15:45
- I'll watch clips and highlights, but that's about it. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 5, 15:33
- On purpose, zero. It may reach 5 minutes by accident. The NFL ceased to be something I consume many years ago. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 5, 15:25
- I was planning on watching tonight's game, and then remembered I wanted to drop by the Gem's box office around 7:30. Guess I can - Meg Sep 5, 15:05 1
  - Otherwise I only get OTA and Peacock games. -- nm - Meg Sep 5, 15:07
- "I watched 1300 hours of tape Week 1" -- nm - Jaws Sep 5, 15:04
- Like 700 -- nm - David Sep 5, 15:02
- I really only watch the Jets and only until around Halloween as that's when they're usually out of contention. :-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 5, 14:59 2
  - Insert Bears. (I do watch some others but I don't waist time on a crappy match up) -- nm - Last Of My Kind Sep 5, 15:23 1
    - I'll watch a little on the holidays but otherwise I don't usually watch teams I have no rooting interest in. -- nm - Krusty Sep 5, 15:52
- Only what might be on TVs if we're out somewhere. But zero in my house. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 14:57
- ideally none but prolly a few complete games by the playoffs -- nm - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:57
9-1-1: Lone Star to end with upcoming season 5 on Fox -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 5, 14:54 3
- Alien invasion finale -- nm - Max Sep 5, 15:51 1
  - They'll have wished they hadn't messed with Texas! -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 5, 16:05
- ‘Unicorn Academy’ Renewed for Season 2 -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 5, 14:57
help me with my 270towin map? (or make your own: https://www.270towin.com/) -- (pic) - mud Sep 5, 14:46 [Attachment] 1
- That’s the map that we finish with if those states succeed in not certifying their votes, right? Right? -- nm* - Queen Amidala Sep 5, 14:47
Test. -- (edited) - David Sep 5, 14:46
Ravens @ Chiefs - WHO YOU GOT??!! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 5, 14:45 6
- i assume Chiefs will pick up where they left off in the AFC championship game. Derrick Henry ain't gonna save em, hon -- nm - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:50
- Ravens... it would be just like them to beat them opening week and then lose to them in the playoffs. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 14:46
- Link to Rollo's Over/Under contest - SIGN UP NOW -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Sep 5, 14:46 [Backboard]
- Taylor MF Swift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 5, 14:46 1
  - :-D -- nm - mud Sep 5, 14:47
- Survivor and Pick 'em link - SIGN UP NOW -- (link*) - Beaker 🍻 Sep 5, 14:46 [Backboard]
Best Buy sending me $10 digital gift certificates out of the blue is certainly sus. It’s legit though. -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 14:41 4
- maybe they're feeling guilty about their official stance to hate gay people. -- nm - colin Sep 5, 15:08 1
  - I don’t feel guilty about mine! - Qale Sep 5, 16:35
- Yeah, it's the second one of these I've gotten. They're just trying to get people to spend money. -- nm - David Sep 5, 14:45 1
  - They are going to be woefully disappointed in my case. -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 14:46
More fun... the next budget deadline for Congress is September 30th. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 14:40 5
- and fucko wants to kill it like the border bill and hostage deal -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:42 4
  - Pushing the Republican controlled House to close the government is such a losing strategy. So yes. -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 14:43
  - Just plain politically I'm not sure how a Republican Congress shutting down the government a month before an election helps them, but OK. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 14:43 2
    - The election starts before the end of Sept with early voting in at least Illinois. I don’t have time to check all the states right now. -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 14:50
    - they have cried wolf so many times, the public doesn't even pay attention any more. not that they did much before but certainly not now -- nm - Epiphany Sep 5, 14:45
one of our analysts had to choose between Columbia and NYU for his mba program this fall. he chose Columbia -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:37
Here, this will help. -- (link) - David Sep 5, 14:29 [youtube] 4
- Which is what I thought of the first time that I'd heard Ida Maria - JD Sep 5, 14:36 [youtube] 3
  - This same thread played out in 2017. -- (link) - David Sep 5, 14:47 [Backboard] 1
    - 👍 -- nm - JD Sep 5, 14:56
  - love this song -- nm - rollo Sep 5, 14:42
Already. RB Christian McCaffrey (calf/Achilles) will be limited in today’s practice. -- nm - budice Sep 5, 14:15 1
- He's just trying to drive down his draft stock so he can pick himself in the team fantasy league. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Sep 5, 15:08
Wunderhorse album. It's good. -- nm - Reagen Sep 5, 14:13
Georgia shooter’s family has his back -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:09 5
- not faulting that, she actually said 'the families affected need all your attention right now.' and she knows what he was dealing with prior. she - Andie Sep 5, 14:20 4
  - Maybe don’t start with “wanna see my family fired up” after he’s charged as an adult for murdering 4 people. - Will Hunting Sep 5, 14:27 2
    - There's underlying tone that she seems to think that her sister or brother sucked as a parent -- nm - JD Sep 5, 14:40
    - I'm not going to fault a family member for protecting another with an initial reaction. If she was blaming the people who died or absolving the kid - pmb Sep 5, 14:37
  - Yeah, I was not at all outraged by it. Not forgiving his actions but noting that he's a 14 year old boy that has apparently had a traumatic childhood - pmb Sep 5, 14:25
new Judge Chutkan scheduling order just dropped -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:05 4
- “ensuring that Trump and Smith will be making high-profile filings, some potentially jammed with never-before-seen details, in the weeks leading up to - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:07 3
  - Sentencing on the 18th? What's the prediction? Jail? For contempt? For the crime? Suspended? Certainly appealed before lunch -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 14:53 2
    - Michael Cohen got three years (federal) for his role in the scheme. Merchan would be well within his rights to give fucko at least as much as the - mr mooch Sep 5, 14:55 1
      - indeed! -- nm - mud Sep 5, 14:57
Federer… Roger Federer -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 13:52
this is like Rodney Dangerfield getting asked his final exam question in Back To School -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 13:48 2
- Good job by the way. *aside* Smithers have him killed. -- nm - VMan Sep 5, 14:06
- "The answer is....four?!" -- nm - Jovian Sep 5, 14:00
This down quilt I got myself to take the edge off my A/C is too hot. -- nm - Max people problems Sep 5, 13:17 2
- guess you gotta buy a second A/C now -- nm - mr mooch Sep 5, 13:46
- Better get a fan. Or increase the AC. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 13:19
Nick (checks my notes again) Fuentes gets it. -- (link) - Dano Sep 5, 13:05 4
- But don't you love that the outrage is that he admitted that he lost. Basic point is that it would be fine if he hadn't admitted it. -- nm - pmb Sep 5, 13:56 1
  - It's like Goebbels being annoyed with Adolf admitting he ordered the Final Solution. -- nm - Jovian Sep 5, 14:14
- Probably just me but watching that clip made me think of this -- (link) - JD Sep 5, 13:40 [youtube]
- Reich on Reich violence -- nm - Jovian Sep 5, 13:16
slip sliding away -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 5, 13:04 2
- Thought for a moment you were referring to RPV :/ -- nm - Meg Sep 5, 14:21
- A good day - Spawn Sep 5, 13:21
Sheriff says new alarm badges saved countless lives as alert went out almost immediately and classes locked down before most heard shots -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 5, 12:59 7
- Badges? We shouldn’t need no stinking new alarm badges. -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 14:45
- We can still win this race against badges. Moar weapons!! (NM) - NRA Sep 5, 13:42
- That technology is something that should NEED to exist but I am happy it does exist and prevented a horrible tragedy from being worse. -- nm - Walt_Disney Sep 5, 13:38
- Horrifying that this a thing in America -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 13:01 1
  - we can choose to change it any time we want -- nm - mr mooch Sep 5, 13:12
- other than the four who died -- nm - mr mooch Sep 5, 13:01 1
  - I'm thinking that teacher was pressing the button as s/he lay dying. -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 13:18
DoT probing airline rewards programs -- (link) - znufrii Sep 5, 12:52 3
- They won't get very far though because you only get 1 point per probe. -- nm - Max Sep 5, 13:28
- DON'T MESS WITH MY MILES -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 13:00 1
  - (Miles Davis butchery inside) -- (link) - Max Sep 5, 13:28 [youtube]
Ed Sheeran bringing on Macklamore on stage at Seattle lumin field was the biggest human quake measurement here beating Swift but... - zeitgeist Sep 5, 12:52 1
- HARD Summer 2024 electronic artist festival in Inglewood had an unusual stage setup and got noise complaints from El Segundo, Culver City -- (link) - con_carne Sep 5, 13:06
Matrix, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sweet November -- (edited) - JD Sep 5, 12:49 [Backboard] 3
- Sweet November is *trash* -- nm - Andie Sep 5, 12:50 2
  - Indeed. But I've never gotten over this -- (link) - JD Sep 5, 12:56 [youtube] 1
    - With more thought, how about a "better" movie with the same pairing: Devil's Advocate -- (link) - JD Sep 5, 13:04 [youtube]
Wife scored last minute tickets to Jim Jeffries/Jimmy Carr show tonight from a client. -- nm - Reagen Sep 5, 12:49 6
- jelly -- nm - VMan Sep 5, 13:16
- Two of the best around -- nm - con_carne Sep 5, 13:12
- and in a skybox, too -- nm - Reagen Sep 5, 13:07 1
  - Fancy! How very PMB of you! -- nm - David Sep 5, 13:09
- Nice! That should be a fun night of jokes you can't repeat. -- nm* - Krusty Sep 5, 13:07 1
  - 🤣 -- nm - JD Sep 5, 13:31
So for Big Brother live show tonight (spoils) -- (edited) - Jovian Sep 5, 12:35
I think this may be of interest to some people here -- (pic) - znufrii Sep 5, 12:35 [Attachment] 5
- Misha!! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 5, 13:02
- "Let's be honest, we're really here as Geeks & Nerds for Lynda Carter." -- nm - Max Sep 5, 12:56 2
  - If you do the spin I will vote for Harris, twice! -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 13:46
  - 👍 -- nm - JD Sep 5, 13:44
- !!! Quite a selection -- nm - Beryllium Sep 5, 12:48
V: Joker 2 - Entire scenes rewritten by Actors/Director on a whim -- (link) - budice Sep 5, 12:33 3
- "Very little happens beyond those walls, reducing the film to cramped psychodrama. It’s startlingly dull, a pointless procedural that seems to disdain - Jovian Sep 5, 14:02
- Scripts are really just guideposts. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 12:50
- How’d that work out for BorderlandS? Joaquin basically becoming Edward Norton with these power trips…he should just direct instead of all this -- nm - Trending Sep 5, 12:38
Do you all remember Mika? Because I heard 'Love Today' twice, in two totally different establishments, in Malta yesterday. -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 12:30 8
- My Mika story - Reagen Sep 5, 14:38
- How could I forget MDH's favorite artist - con_carne Sep 5, 12:50 6
  - I actually saw him live at SXSW when he first was breaking out. He performed (5?) song and then exited stage left. - ty97 Sep 5, 13:04 1
    - Showcase. Yeah I've seen a couple those playing as opening act. -- nm - con_carne Sep 5, 13:09
  - Never seen Mika, and honestly only know one of his songs, so it wasn't me :-) -- nm - MDH Sep 5, 12:55 3
    - ??? That's what we get for stereotyping ;-) -- nm - JD Sep 5, 13:06
    - OMG definitely got you mixed up with another STer :) -- nm - con_carne Sep 5, 12:57 1
      - Get yourself to the butterfly lounge. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Sep 5, 12:59
B2 pixie: it ain't just mailers. We're getting bombarded with GOP text messages too -- nm - decline Sep 5, 12:26 13
- I got a ton from Hayley during the primaries and so did my D friends. -- nm* - jnine Sep 5, 13:40
- I’m not. -- nm - znufrii Sep 5, 12:36 1
  - And I’m wondering if there’s a more calculated motivation partly responsible than just a lack of coordination among parties -- (edited) - znufrii Sep 5, 12:41
- every.single.day. - Epiphany Sep 5, 12:28
- Damn, pixie needs to chill -- nm - con_carne Sep 5, 12:27
- Ahhhh....I love being in a dark solid blue state!!! -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 12:27 7
  - I forgot you moved and was very confused for a moment -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 12:28 6
    - I can only imagine the (coughracistcough) things they say about Chicago -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 13:04 1
      - Oh yeah. And you can't swing a dead cat down here without hitting a Pritzker Sucks sign. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 13:59
    - I'm surrounded by Trumpers down here. But thanks to Chicago - their votes don't matter. :) -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 12:29 3
      - Seattle tacoma vs rest of WA which might as well be west Kansas -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 5, 12:35
      - *nods* -- nm - oblique Sep 5, 12:30 1
        
        It's SO much better than being surrounded by Dems in Missouri where OUR votes didn't matter. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 12:40
"Era 1 is a mess, why target us? I mean I just sh*t my pants yesterday." - Jovian Sep 5, 12:25 2
- Not watching - but that sounds like something Bananas would say -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 12:27 1
  - heh close. It was CT -- nm - Jovian Sep 5, 12:29
Me to the flight attendant: "Why did we divert to that airport and then take off again?". The FA: "uuuhhhhhhh" -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 5, 12:24 2
- was he a hot flight attendant ? -- nm - decline Sep 5, 12:26 1
  - She was very nice despite her probably thinking I was crazy -- nm - ty97 Sep 5, 12:27
He slimed me. nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 5, 12:21

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